The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
mkswap – set up a Linux swap area Synopsis mkswap [options] device [size] Description mkswap sets up a Linux swap area on a device or in a file. The device argument will usually be a disk partition (something like /dev/sdb7) but can also be a file. The Linux kernel does not look at partition IDs,…
mksmbpasswd – formats a /etc/passwd entry for a smbpasswd file Synopsis mksmbpasswd cat /etc/passwd | /usr/sbin/mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba/smbpasswd Description mksmbpasswd should be used only once, the first time Samba is installed. The idea is to ease accounts creation by transferring all user accounts from /etc/passwd to /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Please note that passwords are not transferred automatically…
mkreiserfs – The create tool for the Linux ReiserFS filesystem. Synopsis mkreiserfs [ -dfV ] [ -b | –block-size N ] [ -h | –hash HASH ] [ -u | –uuid UUID ] [ -l | –label LABEL ] [ –format FORMAT ] [ -q | –quiet ] [ -j | –journal-device FILE ] […
mkqdisk – Cluster Quorum Disk Utility Warning Use of this command can cause the cluster to malfunction. Synopsis mkqdisk [-?|-h] | [-L] | [-f label] [-c device -l label] [-d [-d …]] Description The mkqdisk command is used to create a new quorum disk or display existing quorum disks accessible from a given cluster node….
mkntfs – create an NTFS file system Synopsis mkntfs [options] device [number-of-sectors] mkntfs [ -C ] [ -c cluster-size ] [ -F ] [ -f ] [ -H heads ] [ -h ] [ -I ] [ -L volume-label ] [ -l ] [ -n ] [ -p part-start-sect ] [ -Q ] [ -q…
mknetid – generate data for netid map Synopsis /usr/lib/yp/mknetid [-q] [-h hosts] [-p passwd] [-g group] [-d domain] [-n netid] /usr/lib/yp/mknetid –version Description mknetid generates the netid.byname NIS map from the contents of the group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. It checks for multiple entrys of netids and warn for them or filters them out. It is only called by…
mklost+found – create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux second extended file system Synopsis mklost+found Description mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended file system. There is normally a lost+found directory in the root directory of each file system. mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks…
mkiss – Attach a multi KISS interface Synopsis mkiss [-c] [-f] [-h] [-l] [-s speed] [-p pollrate] [-v] [-x n_ptmx] ttyinterface pty .. Description Mkiss allows dual port TNCs or multiple TNCs sharing the same serial port to be used with the Linux AX.25 kernel software. The AX.25 software has no support for dual port…
mkinitrd – is a compat wrapper, which calls dracut to generate an initramfs Synopsis mkinitrd [OPTION…] [<initrd-image>] <kernel-version> Description mkinitrd creates an initramfs image <initrd-image> for the kernel with version <kernel-version> by calling "dracut". Important If a more fine grained control over the resulting image is needed, "dracut" should be called directly. Options –version print…
mkinitramfs – low-level tool for generating an initramfs image Synopsis mkinitramfs [option]… -o outfile [version] mkinitramfs -h Description The mkinitramfs script generates an initramfs image. The initramfs is a compressed cpio archive. The archive can be used on a different box of the same arch with the corresponding Linux kernel. mkinitramfs is meant for advanced…
mkhomedir_helper – Helper binary that creates home directories Synopsis mkhomedir_helper {user} [umask [ path-to-skel ]] Description mkhomedir_helper is a helper program for the pam_mkhomedir module that creates home directories and populates them with contents of the specified skel directory. The default value of umask is 0022 and the default value of path-to-skel is /etc/skel. The helper is separated…
mkfs.xfs – construct an XFS filesystem Synopsis mkfs.xfs [ -b block_size ] [ -m global_metadata_options ] [ -d data_section_options ] [ -f ] [ -i inode_options ] [ -l log_section_options ] [ -n naming_options ] [ -p protofile ] [ -q ] [ -r realtime_section_options ] [ -s sector_size ] [ -L label ] […
mkfs.fat – create an MS-DOS FAT filesystem Synopsis mkfs.fat [OPTIONS] DEVICE [BLOCK-COUNT] Description mkfs.fat is used to create a FAT filesystem on a device or in an image file. DEVICE is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g. /dev/sdXX) or the image file (which does not need to exist when the option -C is…
mkreiserfs – The create tool for the Linux ReiserFS filesystem. Synopsis mkreiserfs [ -dfV ] [ -b | –block-size N ] [ -h | –hash HASH ] [ -u | –uuid UUID ] [ -l | –label LABEL ] [ –format FORMAT ] [ -q | –quiet ] [ -j | –journal-device FILE ] […
mkfs – build a Linux filesystem Synopsis mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size] Description This mkfs frontend is deprecated in favour of filesystem specific mkfs.<type> utils. mkfs is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a hard disk partition. The device argument is either the device name (e.g., /dev/hda1, /dev/sdb2), or…
mkntfs – create an NTFS file system Synopsis mkntfs [options] device [number-of-sectors] mkntfs [ -C ] [ -c cluster-size ] [ -F ] [ -f ] [ -H heads ] [ -h ] [ -I ] [ -L volume-label ] [ -l ] [ -n ] [ -p part-start-sect ] [ -Q ] [ -q…
mkfs.fat – create an MS-DOS FAT filesystem Synopsis mkfs.fat [OPTIONS] DEVICE [BLOCK-COUNT] Description mkfs.fat is used to create a FAT filesystem on a device or in an image file. DEVICE is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g. /dev/sdXX) or the image file (which does not need to exist when the option -C is…
mkfs.minix – make a Minix filesystem Synopsis mkfs.minix [options] device [size-in-blocks] Description mkfs.minix creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device (usually a disk partition). The device is usually of the following form: /dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1) /dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2) /dev/sda[1-8] (SCSI disk 1) /dev/sdb[1-8] (SCSI disk 2) The device may be a block…
mkfs.hfsplus – construct a new HFS Plus file system Synopsis mkfs.hfsplus [-N ] [-U uid ] [-G gid ] [-M mask ] [-P ] [-s ] [-b block-size ] [-c clump-size-list ] [-i first-cnid ] [-J [journal-size] ] [-n node-size-list ] [-v volume-name ] special mkfs.hfsplus –N partition-size [-U uid ] [-G gid ] [-M…
mkfs.gfs2 – create a gfs2 filesystem Synopsis mkfs.gfs2 [options] device [block-count] Description mkfs.gfs2 is used to create a gfs2 file system. Options The default values of the following options have been chosen for best results. In most cases, there should be no need to choose different values. The exceptions to this are the number of…